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Its docket and theyve someti s sometimesered on the side of caution and has embarrassed the country in dred scott in 1957, in pace, alabama, in 1883 and ferguson in 1886. they have also done the right thing with browned v. board in 54, loving v. virginia in 67. so were hopeful that they will do the right thing again with the marriage equality cases that they have taken up with doma and prop 8 but also with affirmative action and voting rights act this year. they have an opportunity to really red...

>> itll be interesting to see whether any of the republicans take any wisdom from the example of thaddeus stevens and his willingness to compromise some of his more radical positions in order to get the 13th amendment passed. >> one can only hope. >> were going to be watching for you, youre co-hosting "the sick cycle" at 3:00. >> kornacki, get well quick. that does it for us. for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." coming up in our next hour, we have the very latest on the fiscal clif...

The power of the military, the power of the president. why was it important -- was it athe all related to the war that he would get permanent emancipation through the 13th amendment? was it related at all to the war? >> what he worried about was that once the war came to an end, the military necessity that legit mated the emancipation proclamation would no longer be there. the critical thing he had to face was that that meant the war had to keep going in order to get the emancipation proclamatio...

Power of the president. why was it important -- was it the all related to the war that he would get permanent emancipation through the 13th amendment? was it related at all to the war? >> what he worried about was that once the war came to an end, the military necessity that legit mated the emancipation proclamation would no longer be there. the critical thing he had to face was that that meant the war had to keep going in order to get the emancipation proclamation passed. he expended the war in...

Strength of his conviction, an important lesson in leadership. he knew that if he didnt get the 13th amendment passed before the war ended it might never get passed. the democrats would never be willing to vote for it once peace came. he used compromise in every possible means possible to get it going. thats the lesson. you need the leadership with the strength of the conviction to stay by your understandings of whats important. then, you use politics, messy politics, to get it done. >> he used ...

Outlaw slavery. how did he get it done? >> he did it because he had the strength of his conviction, an important lesson in leadership. he knew that if he didnt get the 13th amendment passed before the war ended it might never get passed. the democrats would never be willing to vote for it once peace came. he used compromise in every possible means possible to get it going. thats the lesson. you need the leadership with the strength of the conviction to stay by your understandings of whats import...

I had to do numerous takes to eat all of that lobster, i can tell you. we are back with more of our roundtable. the other thing that i did, and i think a lot of people did this weekend, is see "lincoln." what a film. it chronicles such a critical part of our history, and lincolns presidency, fighting to abolish slavery and winning the 13th amendment. that you wrote, david, in your column on friday something that really struck my attention and struck me. and ill put a portion of it on the scree...

Its essentially extending the 13th amendment in sort of spirit as well as in fact. and that means theres still work to do. and wherever we take our eye off the ball, then the birther movement and all of that -- >> right. >> i want to go back to mrs. lincoln saying her husband was loved, which he certainly was. and also clearly he was an imperfect man who engaged in questionable tactics at times, although they were successful. i dont think the american people expect their leaders to be perfect, e...

"central park," the price you pay is youll be attacked if you go out and stand up. but you cannot give in to cynicism. because at the end of the day, we did end up proving those young men, and you put that i think in a beautiful way in this film, were innocent. one of them ended up having to work for the international network because he lost 13 years of his life. thats the downside. the upside is we have been able to show this. the downside of race today, the birther movement, never happened to ...

Its essentially extending the 13th amendment in sort of spirit as well as in fact. and that means theres still work to do. and wherever we take our eye off the ball, then the birther movement and all of that -- >> right. >> i want to go back to mrs. lincoln saying her husband was loved, which he certainly was. and also clearly he was an imperfect man who engaged in questionable tactics at times, although they were successful. i dont think the american people expect their leaders to be perfect, e...